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The UK just proved it hasn’t learned Iran and Ukraine war lessons

The UK just proved it hasn’t learned Iran and Ukraine war lessons

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The Telegraph’s defence, security and foreign affairs podcast covering the conflict in Iran

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As the US and Iran meet in Qatar, the UK has unveiled £15 billion
in defence spending - but is it all a giant “fudge” to avoid
humiliation by Donald Trump at next week’s Nato summit?

Announcing the Defence Investment Plan, Prime Minister Keir
Starmer boasted it meant the UK is spending 4.2% of GDP on wider
security. On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey
talks to Ukraine: the Latest host and defence associate editor
Dom Nicholls about why the numbers don’t add up.

Plus, they unpack the UK’s high-stakes gamble on exquisite
uncrewed autonomous aircraft and vessels and why the UK is
ignoring the vital lesson from wars in Ukraine and Iran:
expensive tech cannot replace raw mass.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey

Dom Nicholls, Ukraine: the Latest host and defence associate
editor @DomNicholls

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

Gulf plans to cut the US out of Iran deal

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/30/gulf-states-plan-to-cut-the-us-out-of-iran-deal/

Iran says frozen $6bn will soon be returned as part of peace deal

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/06/29/iran-frozen-assets-us-sanctions-peace-deal/

Producer: Max Bower and Rachel Porter

Executive Producers: Venetia Rainey & Louisa Wells

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Highlights

Starmer ‘fudges’ defence spending to avoid Trump clash at
Nato. Will it work?

The plan that proves the UK hasn’t learned the mass drone
lesson from Iran and Ukraine

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